In Calcutta's Sonagachi red-light district, photographer Zana Briski hands cameras to the children of sex workers and teaches them to shoot the world around them. The film follows eight kids, among them Avijit, Kochi, and Puja, as they photograph their homes, their mothers' clients waiting outside, and each other, producing images with a clarity their circumstances would seem to rule out. Briski becomes more than an observer, fighting to get the children into boarding schools and pushing bureaucratic paperwork that could remove them from the district entirely. Some parents resist; some children drop out; one photograph from the group eventually sells at a Sotheby's auction. Codirected with Ross Kauffman, the film intercuts the children's own photographs with handheld footage of the brothel corridors and classrooms, letting the two kinds of images argue with each other about what a childhood here actually looks like. It ends without pretending the intervention solved anything, tracking who stayed in school and who didn't.